Release Changelog

A public history of updates to DeleteFootprints.ai, including new features, fixes, reliability improvements, and security-related changes. Entries labelled Security update, System upgrades, and similar summaries intentionally omit sensitive implementation details.

Version 1.7.0 - 2026-09-21

Fixes

• Branch review fixes, retire install.php, changelog SITE_NAME description

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling

Version 1.6.0 - 2026-09-21

Features

• Public changelog, sanitized release notes, and preview polish
• Restore private GitHub remote and polish nav/metadata UI
• Upload row beneath the drop box on all five pages (PRD 13)

Other updates

• Security update
• Documentation and tooling

Version 1.5.0 - 2026-09-20

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• Reliability improvements
• Capacity and safety limits

Version 1.4.1 - 2026-09-20

Features

• Paint action panel and mode box before upload
• Merge the metadata editor onto a single page

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• Visual polish

Version 1.4.0 - 2026-09-18

Features

• Reorder top-level tools and widen the header
• Redesign process page actions and replace-all warning
• Add the Geo Tag Photo tool

Fixes

• Keep mobile drop zone height and content-sized action button

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• Security update
• Text tool fixes
• Translation updates
• Dependency updates
• System upgrades
• Performance improvements

Version 1.3.0 - 2026-09-15

Fixes

• Flush main content and metadata table padding on mobile
• Keep metadata label

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• Security update

Version 1.2.2 - 2026-09-10

Features

• Inline metadata on upload and shared tips CTA

Other updates

• Ad delivery updates
• Documentation and tooling

Version 1.2.1 - 2026-09-09

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 1.2.0 - 2026-09-09

Features

• Landing route shell, layout variant, CSS boundary, analytics

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• Rename the home nav item to Remove Metadata and list it first

Version 1.0.2 - 2026-09-03

Features

• Add complete 16-language i18n and TechArticle content for text cleaner
• Ship AI text watermark cleaner route with Advanced preset

Other updates

• Update footer About copy for image and text tools across all locales
• Documentation and tooling

Version 1.0.1 - 2026-08-24

Other updates

• Update homepage tagline and translate across all 14 locales
• Performance improvements

Version 1.0.0 - 2026-08-24

Features

• Retarget the View page to AI-photo intent across 14 locales
• Verify after strip, and report a real removal count

Fixes

• Serve locale pages in their own language, 404 unrouted paths, pin canonical host
• Route locale tool URLs to the right page and retarget the View tagline
• Use 2025–current year range in the copyright line
• Stamp asset URLs with mtime, let CSS and JS revalidate

Other updates

• System upgrades
• Close: HEIC and TIFF verified manually; nothing left open
• Documentation and tooling
• Merge main into docs/consolidation, keeping docs tracked
• Performance improvements
• Security update
• Reliability improvements
• Privacy protection improvements

Version 0.7.3 - 2026-08-17

Other updates

• Translation updates

Version 0.7.2 - 2026-08-17

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 0.7.1 - 2026-08-17

Other updates

• Ad delivery updates
• Documentation and tooling
• Docs no longer hard-code which ad slots are enabled
• Verified before release: pages load cleanly; ad units appear only where intended

Version 0.7.0 - 2026-08-17

Other updates

• Centralised ad slot system with named placements and a single markup component
• Two ad placements: header banner and below the primary action. Each slot can be toggled independently
• Ad delivery updates
• Ad units stay off local and non-production hosts; local placeholders verify placement without calling Google
• Unfilled ad units now collapse completely rather than leaving reserved blank space, via both an <ins> rule and a :has() wrapper rule
• Reserved slot heights are driven from config as CSS custom properties, so ads contribute no layout shift before fill
• Visual polish
• Translation updates
• Documentation and tooling
• Documentation: ads admin guide for slot setup and verification
• No ad slot is placed in the sticky action panel, per ad-network placement guidance

Version 0.6.0 - 2026-08-17

Other updates

• Demote “Upload Error” from H4 to warning text so the description H1 is the first heading on Home, Edit, and View

Version 0.5.20 - 2026-08-17

Features

• All UI fixed
• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• System upgrades
• Security update
• Ad delivery updates
• Documentation update
• Delete docs directory
• UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
• Update tagline gradient colors
• Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
• Before writing code

Version 0.5.19 - 2026-03-06

Other updates

• Security update
• System upgrades

Version 0.5.18 - 2026-03-05

Other updates

• System upgrades

Version 0.5.17 - 2026-03-05

Other updates

• Removed Malayalam (ml) language support (16 → 15 languages)
• Updated language selector in index.php, add-image-metadata/index.php, view-image-metadata/index.php
• Removed display name and flag from LanguageManager.js
• Updated project-structure documentation to reflect 15 languages
• Removed Malayalam locale files from the active tree
• PHP-side hreflang and routing auto-adjusted via dynamic getSupportedLanguages() discovery

Version 0.5.16 - 2026-03-05

Other updates

• Removed Gujarati (gu), Tamil (ta), Marathi (mr), and Bengali (bn) language support (20 → 16 languages)
• Updated language selector <option> tags in index.php, add-image-metadata/index.php, view-image-metadata/index.php
• Removed display names and flags from LanguageManager.js
• Updated project-structure documentation to reflect 16 languages
• Removed Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, and Bengali locale files from the active tree
• PHP-side hreflang and routing auto-adjusted via dynamic getSupportedLanguages() discovery

Version 0.5.15 - 2026-02-15

Features

• All UI fixed
• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• System upgrades
• Security update
• Documentation update
• Delete docs directory
• UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
• Update tagline gradient colors
• Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
• Before writing code

Version 0.5.14 - 2026-02-15

Features

• All UI fixed
• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• System upgrades
• Security update
• Documentation update
• Delete docs directory
• UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
• Update tagline gradient colors
• Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
• Before writing code

Version 0.5.13 - 2025-09-30

Features

• All UI fixed
• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• System upgrades
• Documentation update
• Delete docs directory
• UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
• Update tagline gradient colors
• Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
• Before writing code

Version 0.5.10 - 2025-09-30

Features

• All UI fixed
• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• System upgrades
• Documentation update
• Delete docs directory
• UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
• Update tagline gradient colors
• Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
• Before writing code

Version 0.5.8 - 2025-09-29

Features

• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• System upgrades

Version 0.5.7 - 2025-09-17

Features

• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• System upgrades

Version 0.5.6 - 2025-09-17

Features

• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• Documentation and tooling
• System upgrades

Version 0.5.5 - 2025-09-17

Features

• Add automated release notes and version management system
• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Restore release-notes automation guidelines
• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• System upgrades
• Documentation and tooling

Version 0.5.4 - 2025-09-17

Features

• Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

• Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

• System upgrades
• Documentation and tooling